If Martin Luther had never been, we would still say it because that is what Scripture says.
Some of us are not defending Catholic or Protestant....just Jesus...and that is what the verses mean.
I don’t know how someone in an all-consuming Catholic mind-set can ever be led to truth about it though except by God.
We can say it all day and all night but unless the Lord moves upon you to show you what we say is true, you will always believe that erroneous interpretation.
God bless,
jodyel
Your post was beautiful, jodyel. There is no other way to say it, in its plain simplicity. As long as a person is guided by his 5 senses of human, fallen, easily deceived man, he will never understand that other sense where God resides, the spiritual. To be guided by that sense can only come from God, it can never be manufactured by the natural man. No matter how hard or how long he tries. That’s why we cannot seem to get through. Because we can’t. It’s a spiritual thing between a person and God. All we can do is what He wants us to do: 2Cor. 5:14-21. Amen.
“If Martin Luther had never been, we would still say it because that is what Scripture says.”
No, actually if Martin Luther had never been, then you would not be saying it because scripture doesn’t agree with Protestantism. Even Protestants disagree with one another about the meaning of scripture.
“I don’t know how someone in an all-consuming Catholic mind-set can ever be led to truth about it though except by God.”
God leads people to an “all-consuming Catholic mind-set”. I have met plenty of former Protestants who would attest to that fact.
“We can say it all day and all night but unless the Lord moves upon you to show you what we say is true, you will always believe that erroneous interpretation.”
Thankfully God has led me to the truth - the Catholic faith - and preserved me from the error of Protestantism.